As the shape of our lives are changed by climate crisis, pandemic, and war, we find ourselves moved to a fundamental reconsideration of the value systems implemented over the past century. Today, needing both a macro point of view and a micro level of care, we are called to expand our perspectives to span countries and regions, to form new cultural solidarities and cultivate the kind of imaginative power that transforms civilizations. At the same time, we must also reexamine the role of Asian art and society as a whole in this historical moment, when Asia’s influence on the world order has grown so significantly. How might we move beyond the complex entanglements of existing geopolitical frameworks toward a more sustainable, liberated, and considered future? The genesis of Cloud Walkers, an exhibition by Leeum Museum of Art, lives in this line of questioning. The “cloud” here speaks to climate, imagination, and hyperlinks alike; it stands as a metaphor for the new sociocultural environment of the 21st century and serves as a virtual platform for sharing across geopolitical boundaries. The works in this exhibition are by those who move freely through this cloud world—the walkers and flâneurs, workers and doers, dreamers and visionaries. Coming from a wide range of backgrounds, these artists bring new and critical perspectives to the issues faced by our contemporary—and future—society. Striking a balance between mutual benefit and technological development, they start from a place of accountability about the state of our planet and work toward sustainable coexistence in both research and practice, freely reconstituting huge data sets as they unfurl their strange and seemingly limitless imaginations across time and space, inviting us to experience new synesthetic worlds of intersections between material and immaterial, real and virtual. Here and now, we hope to glimpse some of the fresh possibilities and dynamism inherent in Asian art writ large, refracted through the diverse worlds depicted by these guides who walk slightly ahead, a few steps already into the future.

Artists: Kengo Kuma, Đoàn Thanh Hà, stpmj Architecture, Kazuya Katagiri, Moon Kyungwon (feat. Jeeu Kim), A.A. Murakami, WKND Lab, Jinyeong Yeon, Yuima Nakazato, Kim Cho-yeop, Himali Singh Soin, Natasha Tontey, Bek Hyunjin, Wong Ping, Lu Yang, Hyun Nahm, motoguo (feat. ejin sha), Minki Hong, aaajiao, Tromarama, Samson Young, Tishan Hsu, Guan Xiao, Lawrence Lek

Curated by: June Young Kwak, Curator, Leeum Museum of Art

HOUSES & PEOPLE (Đoàn Thanh Hà: Nhà cửa & Con người) has been compiled to disseminate the concept "Architecture for People", emphasising social responsibility among architects and introducing this issue to students of architecture. The book tells the stories about how 25 buildings and projects have been designed and carried out by Architect Doan Thanh Ha, who has won numerous prestigious awards and prizes in architecture, both nationally and internationally. This book also includes a series of relevant writings published in professional journals and mass media, with comments and evaluations of leading experts in architectural argument and criticism.

Sách được biên tập bởi TS. KTS Nguyễn Trí Thành (Trường ĐH Kiến trúc Hà Nội), kể lại quá trình thực hiện 25 dự án và công trình của KTS Đoàn Thanh Hà, kèm theo các bài viết đã đăng tải trên các tạp chí chuyên ngành và các phương tiện thông tin đại chúng.

Sách cũng tập hợp các ý kiến nhận xét và đánh giá của những chuyên gia uy tín về Lý luận – Phê bình và hành nghề kiến trúc như: GS.TS.KTS Hoàng Đạo Kính, KTS Nguyễn Luận, KTS Nguyễn Văn Tất, TS.KTS Phó Đức Tùng, PGS.TS.KTS Khuất Tân Hưng,..

2021 Khách mời triển lãm (Guest Artist), Seoul Biennale of Architecture and Urbanism (SBAU), Hàn Quốc (Doan Thanh Ha)

2020 Member of Jury, TEAM20 Architecture and Planning Graduation Projects Competition, Taiwan (Doan Thanh Ha)Doan Thanh Ha)

2019 Member of Jury, Tiny Library architecture competition, India

2019 Member of Jury, Loa Thanh Award, VietnamDoan Thanh Ha)